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Stalker, a JQuery Plugin for Sticky Elements

This looks like a handy tool for implementing a sticky nav bar.

Box Tech Blog » Stalker, a JQuery Plugin That Follows Users on a Page

When we designed the new header for the Box Webapp, one of the goals was to make navigating the site easier and more intuitive, which we decided could be achieved by putting search front and center alongside access to the main areas of the application.  In order to have those controls readily at hand and for an enhanced user experience, we decided to have the header follow users as they scroll down a page.

(You can see a very simple demo of how the plugin works here.)

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Half-Life 3 on Linux Only

Wow! Half-Life 3 will be a Linux exclusive? Uncertainty about desktop UI aside, this is a huge boost for Linux on the desktop. Hey, maybe Valve can convince Canonical fix or abandon Unity.

Play4Real » Valve Officially Passes On Windows 8, Confirms Half-Life 3 is Linux Exclusive

At the Ubuntu Developer Summit, Valve employee Drew Bliss said that Linux is a more viable platform for gaming than Windows 8. Gabe Newell, Valve director, has officially solidified Valve’s stance on Windows 8 by announcing that Half-Life 3 is exclusive to Linux.

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Canonical and Microsoft are marching Desktop UI off a cliff

Doesn’t it seem like Apple has played a terrible trick on Microsoft and by extension parts of the Linux community?

Apple’s poisonous Touch silently kills the GNOMEs of Linux Forest • The Register

If a major Linux desktop falls in the forest and no one is around to use it, does it make a sound?

That’s a question the GNOME project would do well to contemplate. The once mighty Linux desktop has stumbled and looks like it might be poised to come crashing down after the release of GNOME 3.

Here’s the problem: the radical rewrite that is the GNOME 3 desktop seems to have pleased almost no one.

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Strongly-Typed Thinking

Here’s a riff I did on the idea of “strongly-typed thinking” in programmers.

Strongly-Typed Thinking

For me, the joy of coding is considering the whole of the context. We have guidelines, design patterns and experience–all to help us solve problems. I also like to think about the programmers who might come later to read and update my code. I like to imagine those programmers of the future are smart, smarter than me. I don’t assume they are like children who need strict rules. I don’t even like treating children that way.

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Health Psychology

Whole9 surveys lies we tell ourselves

Are you addicted to stress? Does it drive you to push harder and harder while looking down at the wimps who can’t match your output?

I’ve definitely got health and work on my list of reasons to keep the stress juice flowing. The addiction viewpoint rings true because when I hit the weekend and intellectually I recognize the need to slow down and rest up, I feel the intense need to do something productive.

Lies We Tell Ourselves | Whole9 | Let us change your life.

People typically don’t brag about their dedication to cocaine, or their disciplined daily alcohol consumption. These behaviors (excessive drug use or drinking) can bring upon bona fide addictions, and literally destroy health, happiness, and quality of life.

But what about other addictions—unhealthy obsessions that masquerade as conscientiousness, dedication, devotion to something “healthy?” How often do you hear people proudly telling others about their obsession with the gym, their ever-progressively restrictive dietary protocols, or the fact that they’re tied to their Blackberries 24/7?